Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
by Slaughter, Carolyn
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375413979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413971
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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Synopsis
Carolyn Slaughter was born in New Delhi, India, and spent most of her childhood in the Kalahari Desert of what is now Botswana. Soon after leaving Africa in 1961, she wrote what would later become her highly acclaimed novel Dreams of the Kalahari . She followed this with eight more novels. After living for many years in London, she moved to the United States with her family in 1986.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027795
- Title
- Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
- Author
- Slaughter, Carolyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375413979
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413971
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Novelists English 20th Century Biography Adult Child Sexual Abuse Victims England Homes Haunts Africa British Africa History 20th Century Incest Rape Victims Social Life Cutoms Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Africa & South America; Anthropology, Sociology, womens/mens issues;
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